This lacuna does not take away from the overall project to present a longitudinal view of gay life in Germany and the USA from the perspective of men born in the late 1960s. However, the plots of the second and third book don't quite link up. The second and third novels share the main character Felix who is in a relationship with Jack and has a best friend called Sven. The first novel traces four young gay men in New York City whose characters are fused in one narrative perspective.
There is strictly speaking no single main character but the main characters at different points in their biographies follow each other chronologically and conceptually. They map out the fictional life story and relationship history of a gay man from his late twenties to his fortieth birthday. His three novels Play (2002), Fag Love (2005), and Boy Men (2011) were inspired by his extended stays in the USA as a PhD student and a visiting professor of German Studies. He is now a curator at Schwules Museum in Berlin. He formerly was the editor of gay magazine Männer (2006–11) and DAAD Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (2011–16).
Peter Rehberg is a German writer and academic.
